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The 50p top rate of tax is damaging the economy and reducing government income, according to a letter signed by more than 500 business leaders.
The UK's prized triple-A credit rating was under threat last night after US ratings agency Moody's put it on negative outlook, citing pressures from the eurozone.
A eurozone meltdown would plunge Britain back into a two-year recession and send unemployment soaring above 10%, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has warned.
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Brokers need to be speaking to their clients and getting them on to cheaper life insurance premiums before the gender pricing directive kicks in on 21 December, warned Bright Grey’s Roger Edwards.
Safe Home Income Plans (SHIP) said it will continue its lobbying efforts to encourage the government to hand responsibility for equity release to a single department this year.
Reckless bank chiefs who damage the economy could face jail sentences under new measures under consideration by the government.
The government has begun consulting on how insurers can use gender as a risk factor after a European Court of Justice ruling said providers could not charge different premiums because of sex.
The Treasury wants to force the highest paid staff at 15 of the UK's largest banks to publicly disclose their pay.
HM Treasury is expected to close a loophole that allows wealthy individuals to avoid paying Stamp Duty on expensive property transactions in draft legislation for the Finance Bill today.
Financial secretary Mark Hoban has defended the Money Advice Service (MAS), after a prominent peer launched an attack on pay levels at the organisation.
The Treasury and Bank of England are making contingency plans for an "economic Armageddon" if the euro falls apart, business secretary Vince Cable said on Thursday.
The Treasury has created a steering group tasked with developing a range of simple financial products.
With the Treasury set on introducing “simple” financial products, Peter Le Beau, co-chairman and founder of the Protection Review, asks what whether the industry is really able and willing to make such a leap.
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